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Richard Enbody

PowerPoint slides arecurrently delivered as GIF files and share the bandwidth with the RealVideo. The result is avideo lecture with slides available over a 28.8 modem which can be watched asynchronously atthe student's convenience. Supporting technologies include a WebTalk discussion forum wherestudents and faculty can carry on a discussion, and a handin program for submitting projectselectronically. Laboratories which meet live in the regular sections are done asynchronously online by students in the web-based sections. Teaching assistant office hours are handled using achat room, AOL's Instant Messenger or ICQ.An important goal of our research is to humanize asynchronous distance education. That is,insert the human component into a web-delivered

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Brian Manhire; Roman Z. Morawski; Andrzej Krasniewski

by some universities, or are pursued without course work, typically by teaching andresearch associates of academic institutions.Besides mainstream programs of higher education, there are correspondence and eveningstudies. These studies account for about 20 % of all students at technical universities. Classesare organized over the weekend for correspondence students and during the evenings over theweek for evening students. There are also some forms of continuing education in Poland, mainlyvarious post-graduate studies which last 2 or 3 semesters and terminate with a certificate ofcompletion; courses offered at these kinds of studies vary depending on current market needs.Engineering curricula have traditionally been based on a rigid core of

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Jennifer Maynard; Anneta Razatos

biological problems with mathematical solutions by incorporating biological applications,examples, and bench-top experiments into the traditional chemical engineering curriculum.Consequently, students learn to use engineering fundamentals to explain and control biologicalphenomena.This paper will discuss methods of incorporating biological applications into fundamentalchemical engineering courses, such as thermodynamics, kinetics & reactor design, and transportin order to:1) teach students how to apply basic science and chemical engineering fundamentals to describe complex biological phenomena,2) help students understand chemical engineering concepts using biological examples,3) raise interest in chemical engineering by

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Mel I. Mendelson

consist of engineering courses that emphasize management techniquesor business courses that emphasize the management of technology. Although severaluniversities offer such programs, few universities offer a focused and integrated curriculumbetween two or more colleges [4].An example of an integrated curriculum is having both engineering and business courses withinthe same program. It also involves team teaching courses with engineering and businessinstructors. Based upon the author’s discussion with others, smaller universities offer moreinnovative strategies in higher education [5]. However, this is more anecdotal without anystatistical evidence to verify the hypothesis.The challenge is to prove that smaller universities in the U.S. offer more

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Scott McNamara; Martha Cyr; Barbara Bratzel; Chris Rogers

Experimentation, J. of Engineering Education, Vol. 86, No. 2, pp. 167-171, 1997.3. John Paul Osborne, B. Erwin, M. Cyr, and C. Rogers, A Creative and Low-Cost Method of Teaching Hands-onEngineering Experimentation Using Virtual Instrumentation, Laboratory Robotics and Automation, Vol. 10, No. 2,pp. 63-66, 1998.4. URL: http://LDAPS.IVV.NASA.GOV Page 4.369.6SCOTT MCNAMARAScott McNamara is an undergraduate robotics nut at Tufts University. He spent many hoursmaking sure everything would work for the students.MARTHA CYRMartha Cyr is the Director of the Center for Engineering Education Outreach at Tufts University.She received her doctorate from WPI

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Suzanne D. Bilbeisi; Camille F. DeYong

software packages (EXCEL, and CHEMCAD) necessary for successful practice in Page 4.436.5Chemical Engineering.Electrical and Computer EngineeringThe Electrical Engineering faculty organized tours of five different Electrical Engineeringlaboratories (Automatic Controls, Ultrafast-Tetrahertz-Optoelectronic, Electrical Machines,Oklahoma Imaging Laboratory, and Computer-based System Design). The students participatedin two hands-on Electrical Engineering teaching modules, using power system dispatchertraining software and assembly of a stroboscope. The stroboscope was tested and used to “stopmotion” of a rotating machine and water droplets in a water

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Ronald E. Terry; Kurt Sandholtz

studentsunderstand these concepts before they left the university would accomplish two goals. Onewould be to teach material related to one or more of the attributes listed above and the otherwould be to empower graduates to take more control of their own career development.The objectives of this paper are: 1) to provide a brief review of the Dalton-Thompson FourStagesSM model and other related concepts; and 2) to present a module for use in teachingstudents the concepts of how to manage their own careers. The paper will also present studentreaction to the teaching of this material. Page 4.228.1Review of Four StagesSM Model and Related ConceptsIn the late 1960s

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Michael Werner

knowledge should be obtained, and the mechanics for obtaining, mastering and utilizing it.The aim of this article is to show that the Internet can be used as a key enabling technology for astudent-centric course. It was successfully tried in a course given in the summer of 1998.Among the unanticipated issues that came up in the teaching of this course was a livelydiscussion of intellectual property rights.Background:Wentworth Institute of Technology is a medium-sized technical college located in Boston,Massachusetts, with concentrations in Environmental, Electronics, and Mechanical EngineeringTechnology, Architecture, and Computer Science (CS). For some time, the non-CS programsrequired students to do a senior project as part of a capstone course

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Russell D. Meier

Computer Engineering (CprE 310).” CprE 310 had Page 4.57.1always been extremely unpopular because it was perceived by students to be a mathematicsclass. The real goal of the course was to introduce discrete mathematics within the context ofcomputer engineering problems such as VLSI partitioning, information security, and jobscheduling. Its unpopularity made it a difficult course to teach. Students attended lecture twiceper week for 75 minutes. There was no laboratory component. This course also averaged nearly100 students.Thus, during academic year 1997-1998, I faced two large lectures each semester that had mostlyhomogenous populations of nearly

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Ismail Orabi

as well as participation in student organizations.Subjects Need Student Greatest AttentionComputer skills and proficiency in math are the subjects rated as needing the students greatestattention, followed by writing and oral communication skills. The survey stresses thatcommunication skills, computer and mathematics proficiency are important but also need students’greatest attention. The survey also shows that students say that time spent on campus, ability towork with others, and participation in students organization require the least attention by students. The average response for the technical skills tends to suggest teaching some of these skills inseparate courses, in particular mathematical analysis and computer software.Student’s

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Kuruvilla Verghese; Douglas Peplow

week fortwo hours teaching each other to answer questions that are posted in their course locker.The questions are concept-based covering the lecture material for the prior week. Graduatestudent volunteers and the the instructor serve as guides but not tutors. The primary goalsare to provide an enquiry-guided learning environment, to discourage rote learning and tomake the subject more enjoyable.1. IntroductionCollege teaching methods have gone through a revolution in recent years with the conceptof active learning shown to be the way for students to learn. There is a vast amount of edu-cation literature that has established that active participation in the class room as opposedto passive listening keeps students better motivated in the

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Don L. Dekker

. Therefore when we, as instructors, plandesign activities for the students, it is imperative that the student activities correspond to the skillsthat are important to develop.BIBLIOGRAPHY[1] Pahl, G. and Beitz, W., Engineering Design: A Systematic Approach, Edited by Ken Wallace, Springer-Verlag, The Design Council, 1988[2] Mason, Robert, G., Editor, LIFE IN SPACE, Time-Life Books, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1983[3] Dekker, Don L., "Design, Build, Test Project in Thermal Design", 1998 ASEE Annual Conference, Seattle,BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATIONDon Dekker, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, teaches Thermal Design, Internal Combustion Engines,Kinematics, M. E. Laboratory, and Fundamentals of Engineering Management. He has been active in ASEE

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Z. Chambers; M. B. Taylor; J. Iannelli; A. J. Baker

Session 3220 Production of Digital Internet Video Material for Streaming Applications Z. Chambers, M. B. Taylor, J. Iannelli and A. J. Baker University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN 37996-2030AbstractThe rapid growth of Internet-based teaching curricula has prompted a new direction for distanceeducation - the streaming of live video lectures to remote student sites for on-demand education.This live material is exceptional while the post-processed static files are better than nearly allcurrently produced streaming video formats. The

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. Hence theneed to teach design through projects.It is important that students realise that they are aiming at the definition of an end product.Many undergraduate design projects end up as paper studies. This is inevitable, owing to theconstraints on time and finance within the curriculum. Unfortunately, paper studies do notprovide students with the feedback on how well their designs work, or whether they willwork at all. Therefore, at Huddersfield, a conscious effort is made to include some projectsof a design-fabrication-test nature so that students do have direct feedback on the success, orotherwise, of their designs. One such project, used in the first year of the course, was thedesign of a compressed air engine (2).Design is open-ended and

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Michio Tsutsui

), Battelle Pacific-Northwest National Laboratories (3), and other companies (2)who took the first-year and second-year Japanese courses through the University ofWashington’s distance learning program. The main purpose of this survey was to find out whatthose professionals wanted to do using their Japanese skills. The survey asked the subjects howoften they meet business people from Japan or in Japan, how and how often they communicatewith Japanese people in either Japanese or English, and what professional duties or tasks theyperform, or want to perform, using their Japanese skills.The following is a summary of the survey responses.(1) How often the survey subjects meet business people from Japan or in Japan: rarely: 13

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engineers. Thenet result is a positive, efficient, and effective learning environment.Bibliography1. “MATLAB”, MATrix LABoratory, is a trademark of The Mathworks, Inc..2. “TK Solver”, Tool Kit Solver, is a trademark of Universal Technical Systems, Inc..3. “MS Excel”, Microsoft Excel, is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation.4. “Mathematica” is a trademark of Wolfram Research, Inc..5. “Mechanical Desktop” is a trademark of Autodesk, Inc..6. Joe King, Engineer’s ToolKit, MATLAB 5.0 for Engineers, Addison-Wesley Select Edition (1998)PATRICK DEVENSPat Devens is a professor at VPI & SU and teaches computer-aided-design, programming, and engineeringfundamentals. He received his B.S. at the United States Military Academy and M.S. in Civil Engineering

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Y-K Lai; W. S. Chung; Billy L. Crynes

learner needs, subject, and technology, resulting inquestionable returns in learning/teaching for the time and dollar investment. Then, too, much ofthe evidence is only anecdotal, lacking statistical data.The purpose of our project, which began a year and a half ago, is three fold: develop a different way for our chemical engineering students to learn fundamentals design an instrument and process to obtain statistical evidence find a better use of faculty time and effort compared to traditional lecturing methodsThe changes of this Chemical Engineering Fundamentals course are only a small part of the majorchanges in our Engineering College that includes: all new students owning laptop computers (Fall ‘98) use of a wireless network for

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Robert L. Powell; Michael J. McCarthy; Michael H. Buonocore

, and MRI is treated as a scientific discipline to be critically studied. MRI isalready being regarded as a sub-discipline and professional focus within Engineering, just asNuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) has reached that stature in Chemistry.The Web site described in this paper is largely supported by the National Science FoundationCombined Research Curriculum Development (NSF-CRCD) program. The NSF-CRCD Programis a joint initiative of the NSF Directorates in Engineering (ENG) and in Computer &Information Science & Engineering (CISE). The program supports development of curricula innew emerging technologies, and development of new ways of teaching that utilize the newcommunication technology. MRI is believed to be an important area of

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Lorraine Holub; G.V. Loganathan; Craig Moore; Bill Greenberg

requires formulation of actionitems to achieve the goal.Curriculum Change and Instructional MethodsUniversities all over the country have embarked on various plans for better teaching of calculus.These may be grouped into three categories: (1) introduction of innovative instructionalmethods/aids, (2) reordering and in general minor additions and deletions of topics to serve awider class of students, and (3) integration of mathematics, physics and chemistry with focus ona particular field such as engineering. Categories 2 and 3 deal with alteration of the syllabuswhereas category 1 focuses mainly on instructional methods.Barrow and Fulling4 and SimCalc (http://www.simcalc.umassd.edu/simcalc/curriculum)curriculum are two good examples for category 2

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Neda Fabris

purchased several SME Manufacturing Management videotapes that I show inclass.3. Assigned Projects with Emphasis on the Team WorkIn this class two projects are assigned to students:1. CAD-CAM project2. Ergonomics design group projectThe CAD-CAM project involves the Dyna numerically controlled milling machine and MasterCam CNC software. This project gives mechanical engineering students a hands-on opportunityto use our well-equipped automated manufacturing laboratory and learn about numericallycontrolled machines and Computer Aided Manufacturing. On this project two students work as agroup, designing and manufacturing two matching parts of dies that have close fit tolerances. Iexplain in class very briefly the principles of CNC, then students learn

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E. J. Mastascusa; Brian Holt

The UseOf The KolbLearning Cycle," Proceedings of 1992 Annual ASEE Conf., Toledo, OH, pp1124-1127.3. Stice, J. E., "Using Kolb’s Learning Cycle To Improve Student Learning", Engineering Education,vol.77, no.5, pp291-296, February, 1987.4. Harb, J. N. and Terry, R. E., "Teaching Through The Cycle", Brigham Young University Press, ProvoUT, 1995.E. J. MASTASCUSABorn in Pittsburgh and educated at Carnegie Mellon University, he is a Professor ofElectrical Engineering at Bucknell University, he has also taught at the University ofWyoming. His interests include development of an interdisciplinary computer-assistedcontrols laboratory, modelling and simulation in control systems, and development ofelectronic modules for introductory EE material.BRIAN

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Phylis Katz; Howard A. Canistraro; Ann Lankford; Joan Dannenhoffer; Janice Girouard

to instill an awareness of student responsibilities at the University, on both social and academiclevels. Undoubtedly, new facets of the course will lead to further revisions in years to come. One ofthe strongest points of the course is the flexibility that is given to the teaching team; they areessentially free to tailor their presentation to fit their own pedagogical styles. Hopefully the coursewill help to familiarize incoming students with both the academic and social requirements of campuslife and help them to attain their career goals.Bibliography1. Beaudoin D.L. and Ollis D.F., “A Product and Process Engineering Laboratory for Freshmen,” Journal of Engineering Education, 84 (3): 279-284, 1995.2. Besterfield-Sacre M.E., Atman C.J

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Melinda J. Piket-May; Julie Chang; James Avery

1997.JAMES P. AVERYJames P. Avery received a B.S. degree in Computer Science from Michigan State University and a Ph.D. degree in Page 4.432.5Analytical Chemistry from the University of Illinois, Urbana. He has been an Assistant Professor of Electrical andComputer Engineering at the University of Colorado, Boulder, since 1982. He is active in developing new electricalengineering courses and experimenting with new teaching techniques and technologies. He also serves as TechnicalDirector of the Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory

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David P. Heddle; Robert F. Hodson; David C. Doughty

managementDAVID P. HEDDLEDavid P. Heddle, received his Ph.D. in Physics from Carnegie Mellon University in 1984. He also holds a B.S. andM.S. in Physics from Carnegie Mellon. Dr. Heddle has extensive experience in software development. His experienceincludes development of a graphical interface library adopted by national laboratories and commercial enterprises. Hehas also developed and consults for DoD contractors in the area of missile defense modeling. Additionally, Dr. Heddleis an Associate Professor at Christopher Newport University, a State comprehensive institution in Virginia. In additionto research and teaching responsibilities, Dr. Heddle the Director of Applied Physics. Dr. Heddle has presented andpublished extensively in the areas of

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Marilyn Dyrud

Centered Grading System Based on Primarily on the Team’s Performance.” FIE Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1 (1997): 43-7.33. Martinazzi, Robert and Jerry Samples. “Using Active Learning to Teach Technical and Non-Technical Skills in the Same Course.” FIE Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1 (1997): 211-13.34. Mehta, Sudhir. “Cooperative Learning Strategies for Large Classes.” ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings (1998). Available: CD-ROM.35. Moore, Dan. “Introductory Analog Electronics Course Incorporating In-Class Team Design Problems and Multi-Team Design Based Laboratories.” FIE Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1 (1997): 490-3.36. Mourtos, N. J. “The Nuts and Bolts of Cooperative Learning in Engineering.” Journal of EngineeringEducation 86, no. 1

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Hisham Alnajjar

signal processing and its applications to sophomores and juniorssince seniors are already required to take a course in DSP.Acknowledgments This work was made possible by a grant form the National Science FoundationNSF-ILI Grant DUE-9750697 and the Engineering Application Center at the College ofEngineering, University of HartfordBibliography[1] “Digital Signal Processing Laboratory Experiments Using C and the TMS320C31 DSK”, Rulph Chassaing, Wiley Interscience, 1998.[2] “Digital Signal Processing with C and the TMS320C30”, Rulph Chassaing, Wiley Interscience, 1992.[3] “Low-Cost Personal DSP Training Station based on the TI C3x DSK” A. Barreto & C. Aguilar, DSPS Fest 97, Texas Instruments Inc. 1997.[4] “TMS320C3x Users

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Robert L. Green

Session 1615 IMPROVING LISTENING, TEAMWORK, AND LEADERSHIP SKILLS THROUGH INNOVATIVE CIVIL ENGINEERING CLASSROM EXPERIENCES Colonel Robert L. Green, PE Virginia Military InstituteIntroductionEngineering students spend many hours in traditional lectures and laboratories. They spendmany more hours solving traditional homework problems. All of which is very necessary toensure that these students understand certain fundamental principles and to demonstrate thatthey can think!The purpose of this paper is to share several classroom experiences for senior level

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Albert Lozano-Nieto

theseactivities is to teach the students the culture of the workplace. We want to address issues such asthe importance of professionalism, the importance of writing, the need for communication withother professionals, etc., beyond the merely technical contents that are the basis for their futurecareers. This knowledge makes them to become more successful in their professional careers.INTRODUCTIONA common goal of Engineering Technology programs is to produce highly qualified and skilledgraduates to serve industry and the society. These programs need to provide students with thevast range of expertise that will be required in their professional careers. Industry demands forgraduates in Engineering Technology are twofold. First, they require their future

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Milin Shah; Guoqing Tang; Bala Ram

will have a stronger motivation to understand the materials.Faculty will also benefit in having easy access to up-to-date applications of the topicscovered in calculus that are not provided in current textbooks. Page 4.304.11 This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under the Grant DUE-9752266The paper is organized as follows. Section 2 explains the need and motivation forincorporating engineering applications in calculus and other introductory mathematicscourses. Section 3 presents the modules. Section 4 describes the teaching methodologyused in incorporating the modules in calculus instruction. Section 5 describes

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Robert A. Johnson; J. Shawn Addington

into a body of Page 4.308.3 knowledge and apply that knowledge to the solution of problems15. An ability to function as a member of a team in project design and laboratory experiment environments16. An ability to apply contemporary analytic, computational and experimental practices in the laboratory environmentIn particular, the students are asked to rate their opportunity to engage in these skills, bothquantitatively and qualitatively, (i.e. how many opportunities were available for skill-development, and were the opportunities helpful in developing these skills) as well as theirperception of their achievement in